I'm using both Slacko 5.3.1 Black Beauty and Lucid 5.2.8 and neither one will play a data file from my DVD I have no problem with audio or burning ISO files. I have a Compaq Presario Model cq 5000 with a AMD 170 u cpu at 2Ghz with 8 Gb of ram on a Foxcon amd 3+ MB with a 760 chip set and a 500 GB HD. The DVD is a HP DVD- RAM GH 60L . The drive mounter lists it as a sr0 iso9660.

Karl, I have been there and used some of your exelent information to access data on a DVD+ r/w that vista formatted by default as UDF.
I would like to see your work progress to the point of where I could access an optical disk just by clicking on it and the underlying software deciding if the optical disk was 9660 or udf format and applying the correct code to mount it.

A few days ago Puppy 5 was released, using a recent Linux kernel that, if the response above is correct, should natively support UDF. If that's true, then the issue is not of UDF, but of support for DVD-RAM.

I tested three brands of DVD-RAM disks, 3x and 5x, both blank and formated and written to (by SLAX 6.1.2) in UDF 1.5 format. Puppy 5 was unable to mount any of the disks, and its chief burn utility Pburn appears equally unable to do anything with a blank DVD-RAM disk.

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Starting from kernel 2.6.26, Linux fully supports all versions of UDF, so simply make sure that you are using a recent distribution and you should be alright.

I think maybe the problem is not the way the DVD-RAM is formatted but the fact that it's a DVD-RAM. I have several drives which claim they can read and write DVD-RAMs but Puppy couldn't do it. I only tried once, and returned the DVD-RAM for a refund after I discovered I couldn't use it.

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